“Schools are finding ways to meet and implement the CHPE standards. They are creating and promoting a healthy environment, offering healthy options throughout the school day and promoting common messaging that reiterates the objectives of the standards.”
Food is commonly used to reward students for good behavior and academic performance. It’s an easy, inexpensive and powerful tool to bring about immediate short-term behavior change. Yet, using food as reward has many negative consequences that go far beyond the short-term benefits of good behavior or performance. In this guide, you’ll find examples of schools who have found alternate ways of rewarding good behavior and tips/tricks to implement them in your own classroom.
